The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 20.0272 Sunday, 31 May 2009
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Date: Saturday, 30 May 2009 15:33:12 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: MRDS Announces the NEW Barbara D. Palmer Award
ANNOUNCEMENT OF
THE BARBARA D. PALMER AWARD
FOR THE BEST NEW ESSAY IN EARLY DRAMA ARCHIVES RESEARCH
The Executive Committee of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
(MRDS) has established an annual Barbara D. Palmer Award to honour our
friend and colleague Barbara Palmer, retired Professor of English at the
University of Mary Washington, and Scholar-in-Residence, Mary Baldwin
College, MLitt/MFA Program.
Prof. Palmer is the author of _The Early Art of the West Riding of
Yorkshire_ in the EDAM series (1990) and is currently editing the
Records of Early English Drama collections for Yorkshire West Riding and
Derbyshire. She has written a series of influential articles on medieval
and Renaissance drama; one of her most recent, 'Early Modern Mobility:
Players, Payments, and Patrons', _Shakespeare Quarterly_ 56.3 (2005),
259-305, won MRDS's Martin Stevens Award for the Best New Essay in Early
Drama Studies in 2006. Her research on the unique manuscript of the
Towneley plays and their associated documents ('Recycling "The Wakefield
Cycle": The Records', _Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama_ 61
[2002], 88-130) has changed forever the way we view that collection of
plays.
Barbara has been an outstanding contributor to Early Drama studies as a
scholar, teacher, mentor, and administrator. She brings meticulous
standards to her research and astute intelligence and generous
commitment to any organization she belongs to. She played a foundational
role in the early years of the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
and continues to participate actively and annually in its sponsored
sessions at Kalamazoo. At REED she has been instrumental in reactivating
the Executive Board and has served as its Secretary since 2002.
Previously she selflessly spent weeks of detailed preparation as the
applicant for several major NEH grants for REED's broader purposes and
for the collections of other editors. She continues to contribute to and
delight in original practice productions mounted by the American
Shakespeare Center at the Blackfriars Theatre, Staunton, VA, and by
Poculi Ludique Societas at the University of Toronto.
To honour Prof. Palmer's deep commitment to archival research and its
power to transform interpretation of early modern drama in its
historical context, the Executive Committee of the Medieval and
Renaissance Drama Society has established a prize for the best new essay
in early drama studies based on original research using published or
unpublished records: The Barbara D. Palmer Award for the Best New Essay
in Early Drama Archives Research.
HOW TO DONATE TO THE PALMER AWARD FUND
We are currently accepting pledges and donations to the Palmer Award
Fund. If you would like to recognize achievement in early drama archives
research by sending a tax-deductible donation to the fund, please visit
the MRDS website <mrds.eserver.org>, where you will find a downloadable
pledge form at
<http://mrds.eserver.org/awards/palmer-award-pledge-donation-form.pdf/view>.
Questions regarding the Barbara D. Palmer Award Fund may be directed to
Prof. Alexandra Johnston, Records of Early English Drama
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